DHS Extinguishes 197 Million People’s 4th Amendment Rights In Constitution Free Zones

Constitution Free Zones are what The Department of Homeland Security has  established.  The federal agency isn’t really securing the borders, but they  are  extinguishing the Fourth Amendment rights of nearly 197 million American  citizens within 100 miles of the border….and the ocean.

 

Before I begin, isn’t this really what “Freedom of the Press” is supposed to  be about?  Doesn’t it exist to keep elected officials and things they do in  check and expose corruption and lawlessness?  Yeah, I thought so too, but we  aren’t hearing this on the evening news, are we?

Anthony Gucciardi reports on these “Constitution Free Zones” where law  breaking DHS is violating your constitutionally protected rights.

According to Gucciardi, “Within this fabricated ‘border’, the  DHS can search your electronic belongings for no reason. We’re talking  about no suspicion, no reasonable cause, nothing. No  reason whatsoever is required under their own regulations.”

Is DHS above the law of the land?  Absolutely not.  However, the question I  have for Congress is “Why are you guys not reining in this agency and calling  out their unconstitutional actions?”

Strangely enough, the border for these Constitution Free Zones includes not  only Mexico and Canada, but also states like Oregon, New York, North and South  Carolina and various other coastal states, even Alaska!  Below is a graphic  showing the area in which DHS will take your computer or other electronic  devices, search your belongings and shake you down without a warrant and  without  cause and claim they are within the law.

DHS’ established Constitution Free Zones in the  United States

This has been going on since 2008, which means that under Barack Obama’s  predecessor, George W. Bush, the DHS began to abuse its power more than it had  in previous years and under the current administration it has only become  normalized.

While the Obama Justice Department wastes its time wondering if they will  engage George Zimmerman in double jeopardy and violate the US Constitution’s  Fifth Amendment, they aren’t worried about the clear violations of the Fourth  by  Homeland Security.

So far, only the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have challenged this.  Now, I’m no friend of the ACLU, but on this they are right.  They took a  case involving a man who was actually detained within the 100 mile border area  without cause.

Gucciardi writes, “Not only was this man’s laptop searched for no reason, as  is ‘allowed’ under DHS code now, but they ended up finding pictures designated  to be linked up with ‘terrorist’ groups. In response, the man was thrown in a  cell while DHS agents went through every piece of data on his entire laptop.  The  ACLU is now suing over this event, but there’s no telling how the case will  go  with such limited media exposure. The DHS is literally gutting the  Constitution  and declaring itself higher than the law of the land by doing  this, and it  spells out major trouble for the entire Bill of Rights at large. 

In 2008 Homeland Security promised to demonstrate within 120 days that what  it was engaged in was constitutional.  In August 2009, a year later, a report  was released by, not surprisingly, the Department of Homeland Security, in  which  they had basically investigated themselves (that always results in the  right  thing) and determined that it was acting constitutionally.

Their explanation was that they weren’t actually removing the Constitution  from US soil, only the border, which has now apparently moved thousands of mile  well past our borders.  Well they must have developed the TSA and the VIPR  teams  to take care of those other areas.

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